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INFERNAL MAJESTY: New Song Posted Online

Long-running Canadian metallers INFERNAL MAJESTY have uploaded a demo version of a new song, entitled "Systematical Extermination", at their official web site. The track is the title cut of the band's upcoming album, which is being recorded in Vancouver for release later in the year via Greece's Bla...

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British Metal Legends VENOM Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL

British black metal pioneers VENOM have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 8-10 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): CACTUS CATHEDRAL CELTIC FROST DEEP PURPLE DORO EASY ACTION EVERGRE...

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CRADLE OF FILTH Drummer To Play At Winter NAMM

CRADLE OF FILTH drummer Adrian Erlandsson will be performing at the 2006 Winter NAMM show (National Association of Music Merchants),which runs between January 19 and January 22 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Adrian will be playing at the Pearl Drums booth on Friday, Januar...

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VENOM Announce Rare U.K. Performance

According to BaconMusic.com, British black metal pioneers VENOM will play their first U.K. gig of the new millennium on Sunday, March 26 at the Manchester Academy. As previously reported, VENOM have finished mixing their new album, "Metal Black", at the Townhouse Studios in London. The album contain...

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Wake Pig

Not (thank the gods) the '80s delete-bin staple featuring ELP alumni Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer, this 3 is in fact a weird, proggy upstate New York band that pals around with COHEED AND CAMBRIA and gets compared to THE MARS VOLTA. Fans of either of these groups, PORCUPINE TREE, or the late and la...

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EVERY TIME I DIE Forced To Miss Beginning Of STORY OF THE YEAR Tour Following Van Crash

EVERY TIME I DIE crashed their touring van while travelling in Wyoming the other day. As a result, the band will be forced to miss the beginning of their previously announced tour with STORY OF THE YEAR, catching back up with the tour January 11 in Albuquerque, NM. Commented EVERY TIME I DIE vocalis...

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CRADLE OF FILTH Frontman Says New Album Is 'Really Fresh Sounding'

CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani Filth recently spoke to Revolver magazine about the making of the group's as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2004's "Nymphetamine", which is being recorded at Lincolnshire, England's Chapel studios with producer Rob Caggiano (BLEEDING THROUGH, ANTHRAX). "I'm not saying it's '...

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DIMMU BORGIR, TESTAMENT, GAMMA RAY Confirmed For Italy's GODS OF METAL Festival

According to Italian concert promoter Live In Italy, DIMMU BORGIR, TESTAMENT and GAMMA RAY are among the first confirmed bands for the 2006 edition of the Gods of Metal festival, set to take place June 3-4. Other bands that are scheduled to appear at the two-day event include ANGRA, SONATA ARCTICA a...

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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Get Props From METALLICA, PANTERA

MTV.com recently conducted an interview with AVENGED SEVENFOLD frontman M. Shadows. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: MTV: It's interesting that you cull your musical influences from the kind of bands many young people are probably not even aware of. Shadows: I think classic metal just had...

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MISERY SIGNALS Part Ways With Vocalist, Seek Replacement

Milwaukee, WI's metalcore act MISERY SIGNALS have parted ways with vocalist Jesse Zaraska. Zaraska was a founding member of the band since 2002 and had done vocals on both the group's debut EP and acclaimed full-length, "Of Malice and the Magnum Heart". The band will be holding auditions for a new v...

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THEUDHO Announce New Album, Lineup

Flemish pagan metal band THEUDHO will release the follow-up to the 2004 critically acclaimed debut album "Treachery" in the first half of 2006 through Nepherex, home of such underground acts as WANHOOP, KLUDDE and IRON CLAD. The new material, conceptually based on a yet undisclosed theme in Germanic...

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LIGHT THIS CITY Added To LOS ANGELES MURDERFEST Lineup

Bay Area revivalists LIGHT THIS CITY have been added to the lineup at February's Los Angeles Murderfest, joining Prosthetic labelmates CREMATORIUM and THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD on the 50-plus-band, three-day festival. Currently wrapping up regional touring across the Southwest, LIGHT THIS CITY ar...

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KILLING JOKE Bassist Praises New Album, Slams MÖTLEY CRÜE

KILLING JOKE will release their new album, "Hosannas from the Basements of Hell", on March 3, 2006 via Edel. Commented bassist Paul Raven: "We recorded the album in Prague at Faust Studios and it sounds amazing, Jerry Kandiah engineered the record and we are producing ourselves these days... (no cha...

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NIGHTWISH: Photo Of Drummer JUKKA's Newborn Posted Online

Dutch webzine Reflections of Darkness has published a photo of NIGHTWISH drummer Jukka Nevalainen's son Niki at this location. Commented Jukka: "His name might lead us to think that he is a potential bassist but I'd prefer him to be a drummer. After all 'Drums are the instruments of Gods'.=)" Niki ....

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Being and Becoming

I don't think it's politically incorrect to call bands like THE SMASHUP the 2006 model of "metal for chicks". This is show-tune hardcore, a candy-coated facsimile of the more underground strains of metalcore, meticulously designed to be a lifestyle accessory for Suicide Girls and eyeliner-bleeding M...